A radio play which went out on 26 April 2010 as one of BBC Radio 4’s Afternoon Play.

Life coach Derby Anderson gets the job of a lifetime, but is she up to it? It takes Derby Anderson forty-three minutes and fifty-nine seconds to get from her car to the hotel room where the Secretary General of the United Nations is waiting for a life-coaching session. And Derby needs to get her own life sorted out in those forty-three minutes or she won’t be of any help to anyone.

We hear a real-time journey where we weave in and around Derby and the security aide, Jack, who accompanies her, and whose lives we get to know intimately as they get closer to the door of the hotel suite.

Lifecoach is a new play in John Dryden’s occasional series, Forty-Three Fifty-Nine, which follows one person’s perspective in what plays out as one continuous take. It was recorded on location in Broadcasting House, Portland Place and an underground car park.

Writer and director Nick Walker has two published novels on bookshelves worldwide, has written and performed stories, plays and comedy for BBC Radio 4 and toured internationally with some of the nation’s finest experimental theatre companies.

Update : 31 January 2013

BBC Radio 4 to repeat this programme

This programme will be repeated at the Afternoon Drama slot on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 14:15 GMT. There’s more information about this repeat on this BBC Radio 4 page. If you missed it when the programme first went on air in 2010, try not to miss it again. Its a wonderful story and both Nicola and Stephen Tompkinson gave top notch performances in it. If you cannot tune at the relevant time, the show will be available on the BBC Radio iPlayer for 7 days thereafter. There is no geographic restriction on using the BBC Radio iPlayer, in other words, you can listen in wherever you are in the world!

Big thanks to Ana from Oz for the heads up about this repeat! 😀

Update : 17 December 2014

BBC Radio 4 is repeating this programme. You have four weeks to listen to this show. Tune in via BBC Radio iPlayer. There is no geographic restriction on programmes on the BBC Radio iPlayer, so listen in from anywhere in the world.

Just listened to Life Coach. The FUNNIEST thing I’ve heard on the radio for years. Absolutely smashing – and I listen to a LOT of radio! Great script and performances from all. I giggled from start to finish. – And this is the first time I’ve been moved to comment on any programme. Thank you

Nicola’s going to Broadway

... with the transfer of "A View from the Bridge" to New York. Details on this Page..

This will be her first appearance in a play on Broadway.

2015 Q&A

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Last Tango in Halifax

30.7.2015Good news for Aussie fans : After a long wait, Series 3 will start airing in Oz on ABC on 15 August 2015 at 7:30 pm.

1.2.2015
After Episode 3.6 aired, the BBC announced that the show has been renewed for a Series 4. However, it won't be filmed and on TV screens until 2016.

9 January 2015The Daily Mail has an exclusive interview with Dorothy, Sally Wainwright's mother, whose second marriage to Alec Walker inspired the show.

29.11.2014
From Twitter comes news that Sally Wainwright gave a talk recently for the Overgate Hospice in Calderdale during which she revealed that Last Tango in Halifax is to be made into a film. How exciting. Nicola on the big screen. Yes!!!

Awards and Nominations

2013 Olivier Awards
Nicola won the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award!!! For a full report, go HERE.
We also have exclusive pics of Nicola with her husband, Barnaby Kay, on the red carpet which you can find on this page.
Plus two fan reports from the red carpet : Emily's Report and Scarlett's Report.

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